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Looking at life as if it is a jig-saw puzzle this morning. Everyone starts out with the same number of pieces and they are all perfect. Clean edges, brilliant colors, all face up and waiting for someone to assembled into an image, a life as a work of art. Over time, the perfection wears off. …

I am feeling as if the breeze is blowing only away from me. Not towards and then past me but more as if it has started, just beyond my reach and rushing away. If I were a sail  I would be dull and lifeless. Impotent, useless. A dry leaf, I would be still and quite.…

Yep, a big ol’ heavy sigh. Not a happy relaxing one. One trying to bring some comfort to a body pained by its mind. There is a lot to be said for deep, proper breathing. Grey matter – that part of the brain that allows us to conceptualize things. To see what is not there…

Ya’ll know this blog is an exercise in release for me. A place that, for some yet defined reason, I am comfortable ‘getting it out’. It is funny to think of the limitations that make it a small space for as much as I need to get out. I cannot simple confess my sins here.…

Have you ever found yourself, frustrated, defeated, hurt and angry. SCARED and feeling completely hopeless until all you can do is lash out, try to at least even the pain playing field? You have already come to believe the inevitable out come and know you are fighting a lost battle yet, just one last chance…

Everyone dreams. Or, so I have heard and read. Some probably do not accept that as fact. No matter. Science can most likely prove it yet, cannot prove the value, meaning or purpose of dreams. There are many a group or school of thought about it but nothing as tangible as “this is your liver,…

Words are amazing things. Much like light, they have no real weight,  dimension or mass. They are fleeting and ever changing. Seen as different from one person to the next as the animal, cartoon, diety or monster created by a cloud. The cloud is just water. Nothing more nor less. It is the potential of…

This was originally posted here in September, 2008. It was titled,  The Ugly Side of Beauty, Part 2. I am presenting it again, in its entirety, in memory of my little buddy Winston. Pets.  There are many reasons that people go out and bring an animal into their lives. Some reasons better than others; some…

Late last evening, after a very enjoyable night out, I came home to find my little buddy Winston in an awkward spot and position in his cage.  He looked the same happy, inquisitive and loving creature he has been since the day he came home with me. Just, not quite right. He and his brother…